Fuel-vaporizer



8.1. PYEAND H. RABBES. .FUEL vAPomzfR. APPLCATEH FILED AUGPZ'M 5918.

Patented July 22,1919.

Arron/vm BERTRAM JOSEPH PYE AND HENRY RABBES, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

FUEL-VAPORIZER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 22, `1919.

Application filed August 21, 1918. Serial No. 250,818.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that we, BERTRAM J. PYE and HENRY Renens, citizens of the United States, and residents of Oakland, in the' county-,of Alameda and Sta-te of California,

have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvement-s in Fuel-Vaporizers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improvement in fuel vaporizers, and has for its object. to provide a device of the character specified especially i adapted for use with internal combustion engines, to be arranged between the carbun the present embodiment of the invention a suitable support is provided,consisti of a pair of rings 1 and 2, 'each of which the' rings.

1s provided at diametrically opposite points with radial lugs 3, and the disks are connected in s aced and insulating relation means o binding posts 7 a washer 4 of insulating material being arranged between One of the binding posts 7 is electrically connected to the ring 1, and insulated from the ring 2, while the other post is insulated from the ring l. and electrically connected to the ring 2. Each ring has a .diametrically extending cross bar 5 and 6, respectively, and the lugs 3 and the cross bars are so arranged that whenthe lugs 3 'of the two rings are superposcd the cross bars`5 and 6 will be at right angles to caen other, as shown.

A vset screw or binding post 10is connected with the cross bar 5, and a similar screw 11 connects the cross bars 5 and G at their intersection, the s et screw 11 being insulated from the cross bai' 5 and electrically connected with the cross bar 6. A resistance A Wire 9 is arranged lielically within the, rings,

one end of the said wire being connected to the set'screw 10, while the other is connected to the set screw 11 and thisV win.

forms an electrical connection between the y said set screws and between the rings 1 and 2. The terminals of an electrical circuit (not shown) are connected with the binding posts 7, and it will be evident that when the circuit is not interrupted, the current will flow from the positive pole of the source of supply to the binding post 7, for instance, at tlie'left of Fig.l ,froin the said post to kthe ring 1, and by way of the set screw 10, the wire 9 and the set screw 11 to the ring 2, and from the ring 2 by way of the binding post 7 to the source of supply.

A fan 12 is supported by the set screw 11, and it will be noticed that the blades of the fan areprovided with numerous perfo` rations. set screw 11. on the opposite side of the disks from the coil, and the set screw 14 which connects the fan 12 with the sleeve' engages this sleeve. It will be .noted that while the sleeve 13 is connected with the set screw 11, the said sleeve is also insulated from thev cross bar 5.

Housing rings 15 are arranged on the opposite faces of the supporting frame, the said rings being of insulating material and of the saine diameter as the rings 1 and2.

In use, the improved. volatilizer is arranged, as before stated, between the oar-v bureter and the intake manifold in such manner that the fuel passing from the carbureter to the manifold passes through the vOpenings of the rings, in contact with the heated wire 9. The suction of the engine Will rotate the fan, which will thoroughly breakup and volatilize the fuel, while at the same time the fuel is' heated bythe coil. Any suitable source of electrical energy may be connected with the binding posts.

' To claim:

. 1. A heater and volatilizer for internal combustion engines adapted to be arranged between the carbureter and the intake manifold and comprising a suitable support having an opening for registering with 'the opening of the manifold, an electrical heater on the support at the opening, a rotatable element carried by the support and adapted to be rotated by the passage of the fuel, said support consisting of spaced insulated rigidly connected rings, said rings having diametrically arranged cross bars extending at approximately right angles to each other,

A sleeve 13 is connected with the and the heater having a coi] connected at its ends to 'the cross bars.

2. A heater and volatilizeii 'or inteinal combustion engines adapte to be arranged 5 between the carburetor and the inta-ke mani-l fold and comprising a suitable supposta having an opening foi' 'registering with the 

